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Dinner sort of at Yong Green Food

Tonight my buddy and I attended a little vegan ‘do which involved buying dinner at Yong Green Food and taking it to a nearby park. This was my first visit to Yong Green and I was looking forward to it because the menu I saw online was full of awesome.

I ended up settling for the $15.50 Japanese curry. I really enjoyed this as Japanese curry has always been a favourite dish and this is my first vegan version. I don’t like returning to a restaurant to order the same thing as I like to try different things, but I can see myself ordering this again (sorry about the grotty looking lid):

For dessert I chose the raw tiramisu. I gasped a bit when I saw the size (after we arrived at the park and sat down to eat) because it cost $10.50 and well, it was smaller than I’d hoped. But it’s raw, and fancyish, and probably one of the nicest desserts I’ve ever tasted in my whole life. I don’t want to even try to replicate this at home because I know I’d eat an entire slab in one sitting:

My friend got the raw kelp Pad Thai, made with organic veggies and a creamy chilli cashew sauce for $18.50. It looked fabulous and the fellow vegans who ordered it said it was great:

For dessert my buddy got the $8.50 raw lemon cheesecake. Yummm:

I loved my meal and I hope I can go back soon. Service was friendly but they were very busy with orders and slightly frazzled. After ordering my friend and I went for a ten minute walk and when we returned our food was ready. Yay!

After we were done eating, my buddy and I caught the tram in to the city and wandered around a bit. I loved this window display of a store on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy:

Walking around the city. This is Melbourne Town Hall:

Chinatown:

A Victoria Police (Melbourne is the capital city of the state of Victoria) van over there in the distance, hopefully placing KFC under arrest. In the foreground here we have a ‘divvy van’, aka divisional van. There’s a cute little door in the back and a cute little window for not-so-cute citizens to peep through. In Australia our emergency services number is 000. Not 911. This photo is purely for those of you who like pictures of foreign police cars:

We made our way to Federation Square to be greeted by shaded areas complete with deck chairs and bean bags for viewing the Australian Open on a really big tv. My feet and my vegan sneakers:

And we were treated to this deck chair view before calling it a night and catching the train back home:

Yong Green Food is located at 421 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy and right along a tram line. I loved my meal which was also really quite filling. Double thumbs up!